GMAN, in AR11 Rob and Amber had tiny backpacks so they were following your advice from the beginning. In Amazing Race Asia 1, Mardy and Marsio ditched their large backpacks and bought small ones about 8 legs into the race.

Wow, I actually have a location spoiler! I just received an IM from a co-worker asking me when the next TAR is going to be on. The reason she was asking is her parents just got back from a cruise in Alaska. On some tours they were on they had some guides that mentioned they had recently helped with filming of TAR. I asked her if she knew approximately when they helped but she didn't have that info. She also wasn't sure exactly where in Alaska, she speculated, but she told me she would ask her Mom again to pinpoint where in Alaska. Hopefully I'll have more info as to the location soon.

Here are the quotes from my conversation with my co-worker:

"yup, at least part of it was in alaska. 2 of the people who did tours my parents went on this past week particpated in part of it up there. one was a guide up a glacier or something like that and one drove a boat up a river that was use."

"i can't remember which city my parents were in at the time...maybe denali? a bit further north then where we went on our cruise, i believe.closer to anchorage."

"Our fans are pretty good. They don't give away too much. Sometimes people love dropping spoilers, but our fans are good. They tend to do it in such a way that doesn't ruin it for fans who don't want to know."--Phil Keoghan

I heard from reliable source they visited Bosnia maybe Sarajevo or Mostar.. most probably Mostar since its close to Dubrovnik but maybe both.. "We're going to a couple of places that I don't even know where they are on the map. I've had to go look them up." I think this might be it.. Prague, Dubrovnik, Mostar and Sarajevo for Europe this year.

"oh, she also said she thinks it was one of the last locations according to their guide."

At first I took that to mean that alaska was on their way to the final destination. But I asked her if she meant that Alaska isPossibly the final destination. She said:

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"i think so, she said she only remembers him mentioning 3 boats (not sure if it was 3 boats besides his or including his)."

I never thought of Alaska as the final city but I guess it would be possible and definitely a first! This isn't confirmed so take it with a grain of salt for now until someone can verify.

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This is the new information that I just received.

The trip my co-workers parent's were on was last week with their return date this past weekend (Aug -18-19th) They did state that the river guide they had mentioned they had just filmed 2 weeks prior which would put TAR in Alaska during the weeke of July 30 through August 3rd, which fits with the August 3rd finale date.

Also, the trip her parents were on was a trip they won from Alaska Airlines. The tours they chose were from that travel package. I looked up Vacation packages at Alaska Airlines and came up with this:

Girrwood is offered as part of a vacation package. All tours are listed there.

Girdwood is also the home to Alpine Air, which WRP used in TAR2 (see special thanks below). I think the TAR9 racers were also supposed to fly there (Drill it or Deliver it Detour), but bad weather cancelled out the flights.I've got nothing against the Anchorage-Denali axis, but if the race is spending any time "North of 60" I wish they would visit places like the Yukon, NWT or Nunavut instead.

Well folks I am not going to be able to find out any more info. My co-worker's mom realized that her daughter was telling people about her info and she clammed up. She said she wasn't supposed to tell anyone. Too late! At any rate, I have paved the way and no doubt you guys have dig the rest.

"Our fans are pretty good. They don't give away too much. Sometimes people love dropping spoilers, but our fans are good. They tend to do it in such a way that doesn't ruin it for fans who don't want to know."--Phil Keoghan

We were at LAX this July going on our honeymoon, and we met a team from the upcoming season. The team consisted of a younger guy and his grandfather. They were headed to Ireland and were looking for guidebooks and people to exchange dollars for euros on a one to one ratio.

"Our fans are pretty good. They don't give away too much. Sometimes people love dropping spoilers, but our fans are good. They tend to do it in such a way that doesn't ruin it for fans who don't want to know."--Phil Keoghan

Thanks to Colby's excellent lead, I am pleased to be able to 100% confirm the Twenty Mile River leg, after speaking to someone who was actually at the boat launch site!

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"Our fans are pretty good. They don't give away too much. Sometimes people love dropping spoilers, but our fans are good. They tend to do it in such a way that doesn't ruin it for fans who don't want to know."--Phil Keoghan

I can guarantee you 90% that they went to Sarajevo.. my friend just told me he saw some strangers runing around town couple of days ago with cameras following them.. I think Bosnia maybe in this one! They have found a pyramid in Visoko near Sarajevo it is the largest in the world, the may want to go there

I can guarantee you 90% that they went to Sarajevo.. my friend just told me he saw some strangers runing around town couple of days ago with cameras following them.. I think Bosnia maybe in this one! They have found a pyramid in Visoko near Sarajevo it is the largest in the world, the may want to go there

I am not sure then.. He said he saw them but I have to ask him when did he had seen those racers.. He told me they looked like a couple of strangers running like crazy around town.. I can't confirm you that they were there in sarajevo but let say its a possibilite

To add some more details to my TAR spotting in July...We were in the international terminal in LAX on July 8, 2007, at 2 pm PST. I have no idea what airline they were flying or when, but I assume they had awhile, because they weren't flying out of one of the immediate gates around us, and they were wandering around other areas looking for guidebooks and people who would trade euros with them. They did spend a lot of time across the way with a college kid who had a laptop and they were looking things up on it. I was just out of earshot though, so couldn't overhear anything. That's all I have...sorry!